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Fleck, Bela: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Recorded ca. 1990, at Javalina Studios and Mixed and Groundstar Laboratories. Engineer: Bil VornDick. 48+ minutes. Warner 26124.


Fleck, Bela: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Recorded ca. 1990, at Javalina Studios and Mixed and Groundstar Laboratories. Engineer: Bil VornDick. 48+ minutes. Warner 26124.

While ostensibly os·ten·si·ble  
adj.
Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity.
 a jazz release (that is how the Library of Congress cataloged it in their collection), this music actually comes across almost like C&W (Fleck's instrument is the banjo banjo, stringed musical instrument, with a body resembling a tambourine. The banjo consists of a hoop over which a skin membrane is stretched; it has a long, often fretted neck and four to nine strings, which are plucked with a pick or the fingers. ), and the sound is definitely a cut above most other recordings in that genre. The soundstage is well imaged, the detail is comfortable, and the recorded ambience is given a proper balance. Hard to fault anything, here. DPL (Digital PowerLine) An earlier technology for transmitting a 1 Mbps data signal over electric power lines from Nortel Networks. It was developed in the late 1990s, but later abandoned due to implementation difficulties. See broadband over power lines.  decoding de·code  
tr.v. de·cod·ed, de·cod·ing, de·codes
1. To convert from code into plain text.

2. To convert from a scrambled electronic signal into an interpretable one.

3.
 reduced the program to mono, and the only way the processing could be considered workable would be if it were given the phantom-center treatment. Shut down your center speaker and sit in the sweet spot. DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive  ambience synthesis was more successful, particularly when a smaller room simulation was chosen. I got very good results with the "Cellar Club" setting of my Yamaha DSP-A3090.

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Title Annotation:Review
Author:Ferstler, Howard
Publication:Sensible Sound
Article Type:Sound Recording Review
Date:May 1, 1998
Words:159
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